Category Archives: USB

Oleg over at Circuits@Home writes: The alpha of the third revision of USB Host library has been posted on GitHub. The code has been extensively re-organized to make it modular and generic; as a result, it is now possible to … Read more

Isonno writes, “One of the hit discoveries of Hacker Camp 5 were these little USB lights. Plugs in either way, and you turn on/off/dim by touching the back. Turns out the show is run by a chip called the Sigma … Read more

Here’s a simple USB interface to communicate with a SIM900 modem by Jesus Echavarria. He wrote a post on his blog detailing its assembly: Hi all! Here’s the new project where I’m working a couple of days. Since I develop … Read more

Dilshan Jayakody published a new build, the FlashProg project – a USB serial flash memory programmer: FlashProg is USB base flash memory programmer to work with 3.3V serial flash memory devices. This programmer is specifically design to read, program and configure … Read more

Jayakody published a new build, a 3A Power supply for USB devices: This is 5V 3A power supply to drive two USB based devices simultaneously. This power supply is design around LM2576-5.0 switching regulator IC and the main reasons to choose this … Read more

microtherion has published new project the ChipHeadBang, that is available on Github: Design for an USB to Serial converter with ICSP header for (slow) bitbang programming, based on the CH340G chip. While this seems to work pretty well, and the CH340G can … Read more

Ralph Doncaster writes: Since the release of V-USB, dozens of projects have been made that allow an AVR to communicate over USB. USB data signals are supposed to be in the range of 2.8 to 3.6V, so there are two … Read more

Moonbase Otago is pleased to announce its Kickstarter campaign for OneRNG – an open source hardware entropy generator: OneRNG is a USB key in the same form factor as a USB flash drive, it’s an entropy generator, it makes random … Read more

An article on modifying MSR-206 magnetic card reader to replace RS232 port with USB by crimier: This was of high urgency, so I’ve had to suspend my usual work activities and concentrate on this project yesterday. MSR-206 is a pretty impressive … Read more

Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson gave this presentation at the recent Derbycon 2014 conference in Louisville, KY, covering their hack of the Phison 2251-03 USB controller firmware to add new “features” and functionality. They focus on the Patriot Supersonic Xpress … Read more

HoRNDIS, a USB tethering driver for Mac OS X by Joshua Wise: HoRNDIS (pronounce: “horrendous”) is a driver for Mac OS X that allows you to use your Android phone’s native USB tethering mode to get Internet access. It is known … Read more

Rupert Hirst writes: My through hole, home etch friendly version of the surface mount FabISP, which is based around the USBtinyISP AVR ISP Programmer. The new USBtinyISP drivers also support for Windows 8 This design uses the ATtiny84 microcontroller instead … Read more

Werner sends this handy hack he found at IKEAHackers. Giovanni Gentile devised this simple hack which mods an IKEA Ljusa hand powered flashlight into a USB charger. “The procedure was simple, it was enough to eliminate some resistors and use … Read more

Another update on Scasagrande’s project, GPIBUSB Adapter rev4: After working closely with a few individuals it was discovered that some of the pre-existing GPIB software (such as KE5FX’s tools) has some hardcoded serial port settings, one of which being the use … Read more

Today threats to your data can come from many quadrants. It’s not enough to protect against malicious online attacks; there’s the very real threat of government confiscating and examining the electronic devices carried by international travelers, and even planting spyware. … Read more

Yet another great project by Dr. Ayman Shalaby of Electronics Lab, a USB to Serial converter using an ATMEL AVR microcontroller: This project is a USB to Serial converter using an ATMEL AVR microcontroller. There are two version of the converter, one … Read more

Viswa informs us that the Lemcu.org crew have implemented a purely software based USB peripheral for ARM Cortex M0+ devices and a made a tiny Quick start board for EFM32ZG110 MCU. “This software enables Cortex M0+ devices to act as … Read more

Grouflon has written up a unique project using an Arduino and an NES controller. “This week I worked on little script/manipulation that turns an Arduino and a NES controller into a USB Keyboard. Maybe it can be of use to … Read more

cpldcpu writes: I tried to push the ATtiny10 to its limits and succeeded – I implemented a seriously gutted version of V-USB on an SOT23 ATtiny10 with just 1kb flash and 32b of RAM. It implements a subset of the … Read more

Mini-Circuits USB power sensor review by KF5OBS Quick and brief look at the Mini-Circuits PWR-SEN-4RMS USB power sensor. It can measure the power of modulated and unmodulated signals between 50 MHz – 4000 MHz. The measurable power range is from -35 … Read more